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[Image description : 4 Panel comic. Panel 1: A Dora the explorer ripoff wearing a fedora and with the fedora logo on her t-shirt is smiling at the viewer. The caption "Fedora the explorer" is over her head. Panel 2: She speaks to a vaguely anthropomorphic chameleon: "Hello Opensuse !" He replies : "Hi Fedora!" Panel 3: OpenSuse Says: "Someone has been using your code while not freely providing theirs despite the GPL licence!" Panel 4: Fedora "Hmmm... Who could it be?" A fox wearing a red hat emerges from a bush in the background. End ]

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[–] [email protected] 159 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I really like that post!

It seems like OP put a lot of work and creativity into the meme, while intelligently criticizing a problem and not just using "Windows bad hurr hurr" as the base.

I wanna see more of those kind!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Agree, tho this is a cartoon, which I guess these days might be a subset of meme, but wasn't always. Anyways, kudos OP.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Thanks! Now, to defend the memeticity of my creation:

A cartoon can be a meme if it contains memetic elements that get reused across several memes by different creators (cf: the rage comics).

This comic contains text. Languages and alphabets are memes. Therefore, it counts as a meme.

Checkmate.

(Also, since "meme" comes from the greek word "mimeme" (to imitate), including an imitation of Dora the Explorer is also memetic; even moreso since it's been done many times)

(Also, given the way it spreads through sharing, copying and modifying, Linux can also be considered a meme. Since the sharing part is mostly through the internet, it fits an even narrower definition of "internet meme", therefore a cartoon about Linux can definitely be considered a meme)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Sure, artist gets to choose... I guess this is an example of cartoon being a subset of meme then, on the internet even :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not to be mistaken with lady Integra the Explorer, a once kinda famous movie star that regards herself as beautiful. Is also a zombie now, and (still) blue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Have you taken a look at c/politicalmemes ?If a humorless poorly constructed wall of doomerism text lamenting the flaws of modern capitalist society counts as a meme, just about anything does these days

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, where the cartoon series??

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago